Chapter 9 Structured Corpus

library(tidyverse)
library(readtext)
library(tidytext)
library(quanteda)

There are a lot of pre-collected corpora available for lingustic studies. This chapter will demonstrate how you can load existing corpora in R and perform basic corpus analysis with these data.

9.1 NCCU Spoken Mandarin

CHILDES format

9.1.1 Loading the Corpus

NCCU <- readtext("demo_data/NCCU_SPOKEN.tar.gz") %>% as_tibble

9.1.2 Line Segmentation

NCCU_lines <- NCCU %>%
  unnest_tokens(line, text, token = function(x) str_split(x, pattern = "\n"))

9.1.3 Metadata vs. Transcript

NCCU_lines_meta <- NCCU_lines %>%
  filter(str_detect(line, "^@"))

NCCU_lines_data <- NCCU_lines %>%
  filter(str_detect(line, "^[^@]")) %>%
  group_by(doc_id) %>%
  mutate(lineID = row_number()) %>%
  ungroup %>%
  separate(line, into = c("SPID","line"), sep="\t") %>%
  mutate(line2 = line %>%
           str_replace_all("\\([(\\.)0-9]+?\\)"," <PAUSE> ") %>% # <PAUSE>
           str_replace_all("\\&\\=[a-z]+"," <EXTRALING> ") %>% # <EXTRALING>
           str_replace_all("[\u2308\u2309\u230a\u230b]"," ") %>% # overlapping talk tags
           str_replace_all("@[a-z:]+"," ") %>% # code switching tags
           str_replace_all("\\s+"," ") %>% # additional whitespaces
           str_trim())
NCCU_lines_data

9.1.4 Word Tokenization

NCCU_words <- NCCU_lines_data %>%
  unnest_tokens(word, line2, token = function(x) str_split(x, "\\s+")) %>%
  filter(word!="")
NCCU_words

9.1.5 Word frequencies and Wordcloud

NCCU_words_freq <-NCCU_words %>%
  count(word, doc_id) %>% 
  group_by(word) %>%
  summarize(freq = sum(n), dispersion = n()) %>%
  arrange(desc(freq), desc(dispersion))

# wordcloud
require(wordcloud2)
NCCU_words_freq %>%
  filter(str_detect(word, "^[^<a-z]")) %>%
  select(word, freq) %>%
  #mutate(freq = log(freq)) %>%
  wordcloud2::wordcloud2(minSize = 0.5, size=1, shape="diamonds")

9.1.6 Concordances

# extracting particular patterns
NCCU_lines_data %>%
  filter(str_detect(line2, "覺得"))

9.1.7 N-grams (Lexical Bundles)

##########################
# Chinse ngrams functin  #
##########################
# Generate ngram sequences from `text`
# By default, `text` is assumed to have whitespaces as delimiters between tokens
ngram_chi <- function(text, n = 2, delimiter = "_"){
    word_vec = strsplit(text, "\\s") %>% unlist
    if(length(word_vec)>=n){
    map2_chr(.x= 1:(length(word_vec)-n+1),
             .y = n:length(word_vec), 
             .f= function(x,y) str_c(word_vec[x:y], collapse=delimiter))    
    }else{
      return("")
    }#endif
  }#endfunc
# Wrapper to Vectorize the function  
vngram_chi <- Vectorize(ngram_chi, vectorize.args = "text")


NCCU_ngrams <- NCCU_lines_data %>%
  select(-line, -SPID) %>%
  unnest_tokens(ngram, line2, token = function(x) vngram_chi(text = x, n = 5, delimiter = "_")) %>%
  filter(ngram != "") # remove empty tokens (due to the short lines)

NCCU_ngrams %>%
  count(ngram, doc_id) %>%
  group_by(ngram) %>%
  summarize(freq = sum(n), dispersion = n()) %>%
  arrange(desc(freq), desc(dispersion)) %>%
  ungroup %>%
  filter(!str_detect(ngram,"<")) -> NCCU_ngrams_freq
NCCU_ngrams_freq

9.2 Connecting SPID to Metadata

NCCU_lines_meta

NCCU_lines_data

# Self-defined function
fill_spid <- function(vec){
  vec_filled <-vec
  for(i in 1:length(vec_filled)){
    if(vec_filled[i]==""){
      vec_filled[i]<-vec_filled[i-1]
    }else{
      i <- i+1
    } #endif
  }#endfor
  return(vec_filled)
}#endfunc

# Please check M005.cha

NCCU_lines_data %>%
  group_by(doc_id) %>%
  filter(lineID == 1 & SPID=="")

# Remove the typo case
NCCU_lines_data_filled <- NCCU_lines_data %>%
  filter(!(doc_id =="M005.cha" & lineID==1)) %>%
  group_by(doc_id) %>%
  mutate(SPID = str_replace_all(SPID, "[*:]","")) %>%
  mutate(SPID_FILLED = fill_spid(SPID)) %>%
  mutate(DOC_SPID = str_c(doc_id, SPID_FILLED, sep="_")) %>%
  ungroup %>%
  select(doc_id, lineID, line2, DOC_SPID)

NCCU_lines_data_filled

Based on the metadata of each file hedaer, we can extract demographic information related to each speaker, including their ID, age, gender, etc.

NCCU_meta <- NCCU_lines_meta %>%
  filter(str_detect(line, "^@(id)")) %>%
  separate(line, into=str_c("V",1:11, sep=""), sep = "\\|") %>%
  select(doc_id, V2, V3, V4, V5, V7, V10) %>%
  mutate(DOC_SPID = str_c(doc_id, V3, sep="_")) %>%
  rename(AGE = V4, 
         GENDER = V5, 
         GROUP = V7, 
         RELATION = V10,
         LANG = V2) %>%
  select(-V3)

NCCU_meta

9.3 More Socialinguistic Analyses

9.3.1 Check Ngram Distribution By Age Groups

NCCU_ngram_with_meta <- NCCU_lines_data_filled %>%
  unnest_tokens(ngram, line2, token = function(x) vngram_chi(text = x, n = 3, delimiter = "_")) %>%
  filter(ngram!="") %>%
  filter(!(str_detect(ngram,"[<a-z:]"))) %>%
  left_join(NCCU_meta, by = c("DOC_SPID" = "DOC_SPID"))  %>%
  mutate(AGE=AGE %>% str_replace_all(";","") %>% as.numeric) %>%
  mutate(AGE_GROUP = cut(AGE, 
                         breaks = c(0,20,40, 60),
                         label = c("Below_20","20-40","40-60")))

NCCU_ngram_by_age <-  NCCU_ngram_with_meta %>%
  count(ngram,AGE_GROUP, DOC_SPID) %>%
  group_by(ngram, AGE_GROUP) %>%
  summarize(freq= sum(n), dispersion = n()) %>%
  filter(dispersion > 1) %>%
  ungroup

NCCU_ngram_by_age %>%
  count(AGE_GROUP) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=AGE_GROUP, y = n, fill=AGE_GROUP))+
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  labs(y = "Number of N-grams of Dispersion > 1 (Speaker)")

Below20 Word Cloud

Order ggplot barplots by factor frequencies

require(wordcloud2)
NCCU_ngram_by_age %>%
  filter(AGE_GROUP == "Below_20") %>%
  select(ngram, freq) %>%
  wordcloud2

NCCU_ngram_by_age %>%
  filter(AGE_GROUP == "20-40") %>%
  select(ngram, freq) %>%
  wordcloud2

NCCU_ngram_by_age %>%
  filter(AGE_GROUP == "40-60") %>%
  select(ngram,freq) %>%
  wordcloud2

#$$$$$$$$$$$$$
NCCU_ngram_by_age_ordered <- NCCU_ngram_by_age %>%
  group_by(AGE_GROUP) %>%
  top_n(20, freq) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  arrange(AGE_GROUP, freq) %>%
  mutate(order=row_number())
  
# transparency indicates dispersion
NCCU_ngram_by_age_ordered %>%
  ggplot(aes(order, freq, fill = AGE_GROUP, alpha = dispersion)) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity", show.legend = FALSE) +
  facet_wrap( ~ AGE_GROUP, scales = "free") +
  labs(y = "Ngram Frequency",
       x = NULL) +
  coord_flip() + 
  scale_x_continuous(breaks=NCCU_ngram_by_age_ordered$order,
                     labels=NCCU_ngram_by_age_ordered$ngram,
                     expand = c(0,0))+
  theme(text = element_text(family="Arial Unicode MS"))

9.3.2 Check Word Distribution of different genders

NCCU_ngram_by_gender <- NCCU_ngram_with_meta %>%
  count(ngram, GENDER, DOC_SPID) %>%
  group_by(ngram, GENDER) %>% 
  summarize(freq = sum(n), dispersion = n()) %>%
  filter(dispersion > 1) %>%
  ungroup


NCCU_ngram_by_gender

NCCU_ngram_by_gender %>%
  #filter(dispersion > 10) %>%
  count(GENDER) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=GENDER, y = n, fill=GENDER))+
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  labs(y = "Number of N-grams of Dispersion > 1 (Speaker)")

NCCU_ngram_by_gender %>%
  filter(GENDER == "male") %>%
  select(ngram,dispersion) %>%
  wordcloud2

NCCU_ngram_by_gender %>%
  filter(GENDER == "female") %>%
  select(ngram,dispersion) %>%
  wordcloud2

#$$$$$$$$$$$$$
NCCU_ngram_by_gender_ordered <- NCCU_ngram_by_gender %>%
  group_by(GENDER) %>%
  top_n(20, dispersion) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  arrange(GENDER,dispersion) %>%
  mutate(order=row_number()) 
  

NCCU_ngram_by_gender_ordered %>%
  ggplot(aes(order, dispersion, fill = GENDER, alpha = dispersion)) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity", show.legend = FALSE) +
  facet_wrap( ~ GENDER, scales = "free") +
  labs(y = "Ngram Dispersion",
       x = NULL) +
  coord_flip() + 
  scale_x_continuous(breaks=NCCU_ngram_by_gender_ordered$order,
                     labels=NCCU_ngram_by_gender_ordered$ngram,
                     expand = c(0,0))+
  theme(text = element_text(family="Arial Unicode MS"))